Wayne Gretzky, widely considered the best hockey player of all time, famously once remarked "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." In truth, this mantra doesn't just apply to the athletics arena. It's also not a bad philosophy to adopt for one's entire life, as well, and has a particularly strong application within the job hunting arena -- since when you're looking for work, there are going to be a lot of cases [...]
Of all the posts I've written in recent years, one of them that just keeps provoking conversation, time and time again, is the article linked below that I published in September of 2013. It discusses the extra degree of difficulty involved in finding a new job when you're simultaneously going through (or recovering from) a divorce. So if you happen to be going through this situation yourself, or know somebody who is, I'd invite you [...]
Have you ever been talked into buying something you were a little hesitant to purchase, at first? Or to buy a different product than the one you were initially considering? Or to pull the trigger on an item (a house, car, etc.) that might not have been able to offer every feature you were looking for, but had other characteristics or attributes that were just too compelling or attractive to resist? If so, you've witnessed [...]